Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 88 85
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,128 1,645 2,030
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 3.34% 2.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.76% 3.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 781 1,172
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,264 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,305 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,115 43,732 58,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.39% 88.90% 82.19%
Number of salaries quoted 59,537 24,546 31,188
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,997
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 1,834 £75,000 - 1,547
UK excluding London -28 1,173 £69,305 -0.99% 763
Work from Home -19 851 £69,305 -0.99% 754
London -16 798 £85,000 +3.03% 933
North of England -51 372 £75,000 +7.14% 226
South East +60 319 £65,000 -7.14% 128
North West -64 202 £76,000 +8.57% 113
South West +7 153 £67,500 +8.00% 67
Midlands -58 111 £75,000 +7.14% 81
North East +6 95 £65,000 +49.43% 40
West Midlands -30 80 £80,000 +14.29% 57
Yorkshire -4 75 £69,310 -2.38% 74
Northern Ireland -21 73 £60,000 +33.33% 57
Wales -14 70 £62,000 +19.23% 24
East of England -43 42 £67,500 +5.88% 69
Scotland -45 33 £70,500 -7.24% 112
East Midlands -65 31 £65,000 -11.86% 24
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (1.93%) Confluence
2 26 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 21 (0.99%) CMS
4 20 (0.94%) Apache
5 17 (0.80%) Camunda
6 12 (0.56%) WebLogic
7 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.47%) IIS
7 10 (0.47%) nginx
7 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.47%) WordPress
8 8 (0.38%) Drupal
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.33%) JBoss
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
11 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
11 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.047%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
3 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.094%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.047%) Eikon
6 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.047%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,110 (52.16%) AWS
2 908 (42.67%) Azure
3 340 (15.98%) GCP
4 297 (13.96%) GitHub
5 262 (12.31%) Serverless
6 214 (10.06%) SaaS
7 182 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 136 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
10 130 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 117 (5.50%) Amazon S3
12 107 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 95 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
14 90 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
15 84 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
16 63 (2.96%) Amazon SQS
17 59 (2.77%) Azure AKS
18 55 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
19 54 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
20 52 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.27%) Network Security
2 22 (1.03%) VPN
3 15 (0.70%) Broadband
3 15 (0.70%) DMARC
4 14 (0.66%) DNS
5 13 (0.61%) Firewall
5 13 (0.61%) TCP/IP
6 12 (0.56%) MQTT
7 10 (0.47%) AMQP
8 9 (0.42%) HTTP
9 8 (0.38%) BGP
9 8 (0.38%) Internet
10 7 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
11 4 (0.19%) RFID
12 3 (0.14%) NAS
12 3 (0.14%) OpenVPN
12 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 3 (0.14%) SSL
13 2 (0.094%) DHCP
13 2 (0.094%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (15.18%) MongoDB
2 253 (11.89%) PostgreSQL
3 213 (10.01%) NoSQL
4 169 (7.94%) Azure SQL Database
5 152 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (5.64%) MySQL
7 110 (5.17%) SQL Server
8 88 (4.14%) Relational Database
9 81 (3.81%) Redis
10 53 (2.49%) DynamoDB
11 52 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.36%) Big Data
13 22 (1.03%) Data Lake
14 21 (0.99%) Pinecone
15 14 (0.66%) Chroma
16 13 (0.61%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.56%) DTS
18 10 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
18 10 (0.47%) Db2
18 10 (0.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 304 (14.29%) Git
2 209 (9.82%) GitLab
3 172 (8.08%) Jenkins
4 82 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 73 (3.43%) JUnit
6 59 (2.77%) Cucumber
7 58 (2.73%) JIRA
8 45 (2.11%) Mockito
9 38 (1.79%) Cypress.io
10 37 (1.74%) Maven
11 33 (1.55%) Claude Code
12 32 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 22 (1.03%) Selenium
14 18 (0.85%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.80%) Spock
16 16 (0.75%) Postman
17 14 (0.66%) JMeter
18 13 (0.61%) SonarQube
19 12 (0.56%) Vite
20 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 540 (25.38%) Finance
2 454 (21.33%) Social Skills
3 244 (11.47%) Public Sector
4 214 (10.06%) Banking
5 182 (8.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 160 (7.52%) Law
7 152 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
8 144 (6.77%) Retail
9 104 (4.89%) Financial Institution
10 85 (3.99%) Legal
11 79 (3.71%) Back Office
12 59 (2.77%) Marketing
13 46 (2.16%) Aerospace
14 32 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.46%) Games
16 28 (1.32%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 14 (0.66%) Advertising
19 13 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
20 12 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 757 (35.57%) Developer
2 544 (25.56%) Senior
3 388 (18.23%) Software Engineer
4 359 (16.87%) Lead
5 310 (14.57%) Architect
6 210 (9.87%) Senior Developer
7 194 (9.12%) .NET Developer
8 169 (7.94%) Java Developer
9 164 (7.71%) Full-Stack Developer
10 151 (7.10%) Java Engineer
11 138 (6.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 132 (6.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 112 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
14 106 (4.98%) Solutions Architect
15 85 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
16 81 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
17 73 (3.43%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.10%) Senior Java Engineer
19 65 (3.05%) Backend Developer
20 64 (3.01%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 536 (25.19%) .NET
2 457 (21.48%) React
3 428 (20.11%) Node.js
4 424 (19.92%) Terraform
5 422 (19.83%) Spring
6 386 (18.14%) Spring Boot
7 318 (14.94%) RESTful
8 308 (14.47%) REST
9 307 (14.43%) Kafka
10 240 (11.28%) ASP.NET
11 233 (10.95%) AngularJS
12 222 (10.43%) .NET Core
13 200 (9.40%) Vue
14 195 (9.16%) ASP.NET Core
15 129 (6.06%) Blazor
16 104 (4.89%) ASP.NET Web API
17 89 (4.18%) HTML
18 87 (4.09%) .NET Framework
19 86 (4.04%) CSS
20 82 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 731 (34.35%) Cloud Native
2 408 (19.17%) Distributed Systems
3 174 (8.18%) Product Ownership
4 133 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 97 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (3.95%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.15%) AI Agents
7 67 (3.15%) Public Cloud
8 51 (2.40%) Virtual Team
9 50 (2.35%) e-Learning
10 47 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 45 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
12 33 (1.55%) Management Information System
13 24 (1.13%) Blog
13 24 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
14 22 (1.03%) Private Cloud
14 22 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 21 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
15 21 (0.99%) Mainframe
16 20 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 151 (7.10%) Linux
2 46 (2.16%) Windows
3 36 (1.69%) CentOS
3 36 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.89%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) AIX
7 7 (0.33%) Debian
7 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (56.44%) CI/CD
2 1,045 (49.11%) Agile
3 783 (36.80%) Software Engineering
4 761 (35.76%) DevOps
5 568 (26.69%) Mentoring
6 567 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 504 (23.68%) Event-Driven
8 490 (23.03%) AI
9 468 (21.99%) Test Automation
10 455 (21.38%) Infrastructure as Code
11 424 (19.92%) Continuous Improvement
12 419 (19.69%) Containerisation
13 391 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
14 354 (16.64%) Technical Leadership
15 321 (15.08%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 297 (13.96%) Scrum
17 282 (13.25%) Observability
18 269 (12.64%) Architectural Patterns
19 242 (11.37%) TDD
20 241 (11.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 808 (37.97%) Java
2 579 (27.21%) C#
3 517 (24.30%) SQL
4 450 (21.15%) JavaScript
5 414 (19.45%) Python
5 414 (19.45%) TypeScript
6 86 (4.04%) Go
7 54 (2.54%) Ruby
8 39 (1.83%) C++
9 35 (1.64%) Bash
10 33 (1.55%) PHP
11 30 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 29 (1.36%) Bicep
13 24 (1.13%) PowerShell
14 19 (0.89%) Rust
15 17 (0.80%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.61%) Scala
17 12 (0.56%) Groovy
18 11 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 367 (17.25%) Security Cleared
2 256 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 163 (7.66%) Degree
4 113 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 87 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 85 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 64 (3.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 40 (1.88%) CISSP
9 38 (1.79%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.27%) CISM
11 19 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
13 15 (0.70%) Master's Degree
14 12 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 10 (0.47%) CCSP
15 10 (0.47%) MBA
16 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
18 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.43%) QA
2 105 (4.93%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.83%) WCAG
5 28 (1.32%) NIST
6 27 (1.27%) GDPR
7 20 (0.94%) PCI DSS
8 19 (0.89%) Data Quality
9 17 (0.80%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) SOC 2
11 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 7 (0.33%) GRC
14 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
15 5 (0.23%) PSD2
16 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.14%) SEPA
17 3 (0.14%) SLA
18 2 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 626 (29.42%) Docker
2 43 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 704 (33.08%) Kubernetes
2 132 (6.20%) Grafana
3 99 (4.65%) Ansible
4 52 (2.44%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.17%) Argo
7 21 (0.99%) Puppet
8 15 (0.70%) Cilium
8 15 (0.70%) Kibana
9 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.23%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.094%) logstash
13 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.094%) Rancher
14 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.047%) Consul
14 1 (0.047%) Control-M
14 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 349 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.03%) Google
3 72 (3.38%) Oracle
4 57 (2.68%) Splunk
5 51 (2.40%) OpenAI
6 30 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 29 (1.36%) Okta
8 27 (1.27%) ForgeRock
9 25 (1.17%) Databricks
10 18 (0.85%) Mistral
10 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
11 17 (0.80%) IBM
12 16 (0.75%) SAP
13 15 (0.70%) SendGrid
14 14 (0.66%) Adobe
14 14 (0.66%) AppDynamics
14 14 (0.66%) OpenText
15 13 (0.61%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.56%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.52%) Red Hat